"Ambition is when you expect yourself to close the gap between what you have and what you want.
Entitlement is when you expect others to close the gap between what you have and what you want."
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"It's generally better to over-communicate.
If you wait to reply because you don't have an answer yet (or because you don't want to share bad news), the other party often ends up making assumptions about what the delayed reply might mean.
Silence frustrates and confuses people. Better to communicate early and often."
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"It’s not about what someone can do for you, it's who and what the two of you become in each other's presence."
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"Never offer what you'd hate someone for accepting."
"Never offer what you'd hate someone for accepting."
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"Create your life rather than live it."
"Create your life rather than live it."
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"One of the most critical skills in life—and yet never taught in school—is choosing where to direct your attention.
After graduation, the valedictorian will often get lapped by "average" people who better invest their time."
"One of the most critical skills in life—and yet never taught in school—is choosing where to direct your attention.
After graduation, the valedictorian will often get lapped by "average" people who better invest their time."
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"Money plays an important role in life, but it can't be the only filter for how you decide to spend your time. Nobody will ever pay you to go on a date with your spouse or take your kids to the park or grab coffee with your parents."
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Carl Jung, the influential psychiatrist, on the value of knowing yourself:
"The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you."
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Philosopher and writer Sir Roger Scruton on the importance of building beautiful things:
"There is a deep human need for beauty, and if you ignore that need in architecture, your buildings will not last, since people will never feel at home in them."
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"Many people won't attempt something unless they can find an example of someone else who is already doing it. Rely on this type of thinking too much and you'll never do anything interesting.
Your path through life is unique. It is important to extract lessons from the experiences of others, but you can't wait for a perfect example to take action. You are the example."
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Writer and psychoanalyst Marion Milner on the work required to be happy:
"Let no one think it is an easy way because it is concerned with moments of happiness rather than with stern duty or high moral endeavor. For what is really easy, as I found, is to blind one’s eyes to what one really likes, to drift into accepting one's wants ready-made from other people, and to evade the continual day to day sifting of values."
"Money plays an important role in life, but it can't be the only filter for how you decide to spend your time. Nobody will ever pay you to go on a date with your spouse or take your kids to the park or grab coffee with your parents."
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Carl Jung, the influential psychiatrist, on the value of knowing yourself:
"The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you."
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Philosopher and writer Sir Roger Scruton on the importance of building beautiful things:
"There is a deep human need for beauty, and if you ignore that need in architecture, your buildings will not last, since people will never feel at home in them."
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"Many people won't attempt something unless they can find an example of someone else who is already doing it. Rely on this type of thinking too much and you'll never do anything interesting.
Your path through life is unique. It is important to extract lessons from the experiences of others, but you can't wait for a perfect example to take action. You are the example."
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Writer and psychoanalyst Marion Milner on the work required to be happy:
"Let no one think it is an easy way because it is concerned with moments of happiness rather than with stern duty or high moral endeavor. For what is really easy, as I found, is to blind one’s eyes to what one really likes, to drift into accepting one's wants ready-made from other people, and to evade the continual day to day sifting of values."
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Mike Markkula, an electrical engineer and investor who worked alongside Steve Jobs and eventually became the first chairman of Apple Computer, shares a few of the company's core principles:
"The Apple Marketing Philosophy:
Empathy. We will truly understand their needs better than any other company.
Focus. In order to do a good job of those things we decide to do we must eliminate all of the unimportant opportunities.
Impute. People DO judge a book by its cover. We may have the best product, the highest quality, the most useful software, etc.; if we present them in a slipshod manner, they will be perceived as slipshod; if we present them in a creative, professional manner, we will impute the desired qualities."
Source: Internal memo (January 3, 1977)
Mike Markkula, an electrical engineer and investor who worked alongside Steve Jobs and eventually became the first chairman of Apple Computer, shares a few of the company's core principles:
"The Apple Marketing Philosophy:
Empathy. We will truly understand their needs better than any other company.
Focus. In order to do a good job of those things we decide to do we must eliminate all of the unimportant opportunities.
Impute. People DO judge a book by its cover. We may have the best product, the highest quality, the most useful software, etc.; if we present them in a slipshod manner, they will be perceived as slipshod; if we present them in a creative, professional manner, we will impute the desired qualities."
Source: Internal memo (January 3, 1977)
